Intercultural encounters in a united Europe – supported by modern digital media Erasmus Project

Project Title

Intercultural encounters in a united Europe – supported by modern digital media

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social entrepreneurship / social innovation; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Intercultural encounters in a united Europe – supported by modern digital media
Making our students aware of the value of a united Europe is an important task, especially at the present time. It is our intention to raise their awareness of collaboration. The exchange with the partner school is intended to illustrate our numerous shared cultural values. A central aim of our project is to allow students to experience themselves as EU citizens on the journeys abroad. Realizing that the EU has a lot to do with oneself can best be accomplished by visiting EU institutions and by talking to the persons working there.
The objectives of the project are
* to promote knowledge about the EU institutions and democratic decision-making and to be aware that the EU is a project to maintain peace,
* to study the cultural, natural and social heritage of the participating regions and
* to improve digital skills of teachers and pupils, by doing so fostering the acquisition of digital and language competences.

To reach these objectives we carry out several activities. They consist of acitvities at the participating schools and at short-term exchanges of students and their accompanying teachers. The activities at schools include working on the project topics in lessons in history, geography, economics, informatics, languages about the cultural, social and natural heritage of the participating regions, expert talks and research of teachers on suitable IT tools to create surveys, quizzes, presentations about the areas. The students also get information on internet security. In lessons like “project management” the students organize the activities for the visits of the partner school. The schools also promote the use of etwinning and they establish websites to disseminate the results of the cooperation.

The short-term exchanges of the students comprise a visit to Brussels, focusing on the EU institutions and the democratic decision-making process and to places of cultural and natural importance in the participating regions. They will be invited to the lessons of the visited school, doing exkursions together to regional enterprises, which are best practise examples for sustainable and social entrepreneurship. There is also the chance to meet a political representative or visit a democratic institution. The students present their work in a digital form to their collegues back home. All short-term exchanges include a dissemination activity with the wider puplic (radio, newspaper, social media), in which pupils present their schools and their regions.

The results of our cooperation are websites where all information about the visits are published, reports in newspapers, videos and contributions on the local radio. We will evaluate all visits and will inform about the results. We provide articles describing activities at the participating schools, students articles about their stays and reports about the short-term exchange of pupils focusing on Brussels and on the region visited.

These results are published on the Result Platform at the end of the project.
To organise our work we use an etwinning TwinSpace, all forms of communication also including video conferences.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 65826 Eur

Project Coordinator

Höhere Bundeslehranstalt & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Vyssi odborna skola zdravotnicka, Stredni zdravotnicka skola a Obchodni akademie,Trutnov